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Len Buckwalter Transistor Museum Historic Profile |
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Recognizing Significant Contributions to 20th Century Semiconductor History and Technology |
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Notable Contributions, Continued |
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True to the successful approach he developed as a free-lance author of construction articles, Len’s how-to books combined an entertaining writing style with copious photographs and drawings. You can see examples on this page. In addition to the three projects discussed at right and shown above, this 1962 book “Having Fun with Transistors” also included such intriguing projects as “Lemon-Juice Oscillator”, Toddler’s Tooter” and “Musical Oatmeal Box”. What fun! |
Shown on this page are three scans from transistor construction projects documented by Len in his classic 1962 book “Having Fun with Transistors”. This book was widely read by young electronics hobbyists in the 1960s and 1970s, and doubtless inspired the construction of thousands of transistor projects modeled after “Sherlock Ohms” (above right), “Boris the Talking Skull” (above left) and “Electronic Eyeball” (at left). All 13 of the projects covered in this classic how-to book provide an entertaining and educational introduction to early transistor technology. Len first began writing books on construction projects and related electronics topics while still free-lancing for Electronics Illustrated; in total, he authored 22 books of this type, beginning in the early 1960s. Howard W. Sams company was Len’s publisher for this series of books and many of these classics are still available online. |
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COPYRIGHT © 2009 by Jack Ward. All Rights Reserved. http://www.transistormuseum.com TRANSISTOR MUSEUM™ HISTORIC PROFILES – LEN BUCKWALTER PAGE 5 |
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